Michael Horn offers three strategies for staying relevant as skills become obsolete faster: adopt a learner's mindset and monitor what's in demand, identify tasks that energize you and develop those skills, and regularly reassess your goals as circumstances change.
How can workers thrive in an age where the shelf life of skills just keeps getting shorter and shorter and shorter? 3 tips for you 1 have a learner's mindset. Stay current on how skill demands are changing, and find out where you can learn the ones that you need to stay up on the cutting edge. Second, identify your energy drivers. That means pinpoint moments in your work where it doesn't feel like work, and figure out ways you can do more of that and lean into developing those skills. And then third, check in with yourself periodically. Our interests, our lives, they are not static. They change. Our goals change. What gives us energy change. So check in periodically and then adjust if necessary.
